Month: August 2014

As Will Self argue in his article (shown on Network Media blog), he thinks novel, which was the center of our culture, is dying due to the development of digital media. He argued ‘In the digital age, not only is the physical book in decline, but the very idea of ‘difficult’ reading is being challenged.’ It is not hard for me to understand his idea, because I already recognized how less I read now compared with I did in my high school. Digital media more and more replace the role of reading because everyone gets quick life peace now. Compared with spending one week to read a fat book, people now tend to watch a film or TV show coz it is more relaxing and saving time. This phenomenon is just what we should study in uni, to feel these changes and figure out what this trend will lead us to.

 

Another one here, which is a little bit bigger..

 

Done it last semester break by using AE, because I was too bored..

may be you need to click the image and open it in a new window, It seems cannot play gif directly here..

There are lots of common features in Hollywood classical films, for example, heroic, love or romantic themes, struggles between characters, causality and happy ending. In classical Hollywood films, characters always have their goals. And in the middle of the scene, they starts to show them by struggling, making choices or appointments which affect the future events and open up new causal lines. And then, most films end happily, but usually for the main character. However, it is worth pointing out that even the classical ending may not be happy for everyone. The fates of second character may be unsettled. For example, in One hour with you, the doctor couple finally get a happy ending which they forgive each other for love and by contrast, the professor actually does not get what he wants but lose his wife. And in The Pink Panther, even the inspector gets some substitutes like the popularity of women, but he is set up and jailed at the end.

As the introduction on its website, ‘The Australian Copyright Council is an independent, non-profit organisation. Founded in 1968, we represent the peak bodies for professional artists and content creators working in Australia’s creative industries and Australia’s major copyright collecting societies.’ It is helpful for people publishing creative works and protecting their rights.

Click here to its website

In this week lecture, we have further discussed the copyright issue in media industry and some typical and representative cases happened before. Copyright, of course, is a very significant issue not only for media workers but also for people who need to raise their awareness on copyright protection. However, we also indicated that unless being prosecuted by the original owner, government, police and judges would not take action or fine you due to violating copyright law. This is, somehow, a unclear and complicated area now.